Horizon Power building green hydrogen microgrid

Western Australian-government owned power company Horizon Power last week announced the start of construction of a green hydrogen project in the Gascoyne town of Denham.

The project will consist of a 348-kW electrolyser using power from a 704-kW solar farm. The facility will also include hydrogen compression and storage capacity and a 100-kW fuel cell.

Once operational, the remote microgrid will produce 526 MWh of power annually, or enough to cover the needs of 100 local homes, which will be fed into the Denham power system.

“Horizon Power’s hydrogen plant will demonstrate how hydrogen can reliably produce power for towns currently dependant on diesel fuel power systems. It will allow Horizon Power to transition our network away from higher emission generating sources and meet our target of no new diesel generation systems from 2025,” said Horizon Power CEO Stephanie Unwin

Construction of the hydrogen power plant is expected to begin in August.

The project is backed by AUD 2.6 million (USD 2.02m/EUR 1.66m) from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and AUD 5.7 million from the government of Western Australia.

(AUD 1.0 = USD 0.776/EUR 0.640)

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